I am new to LinHES and need a pointer on installation of a Ceton InfiniTV 4 card. I have a Ceton InfiniTV 4 card and hopeful that the driver for this device will be installed by default. In the mythbackend, the Ceton card is available to be selected; however, when I scan for channels the message "Failed to open the card" appears in the Scan Type box. It seems like this device is not functioning because I am unable to access the device web configuration page at 192.168.200.1.

Is it correct that the driver for Ceton InfiniTV 4 card is not installed by default and I need to install it manually?

After installing the driver manually (assuming this will be the case), I presume that re-installation of the driver will be necessary when LinHES updates the kernel? If yes, is there a way to avoiding this manual re-installation step (dkms)?

Any input will be greatly appreciated.

With kind regards,

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I don't have a Ceton so have never tested it myself but others here do and have reported that it works. It should be installed by default. Check with pacman -Ss ceton. I know it gets rebuild everytime we update the kernel http://cgit.linhes.org/linhes_pkgbuild/ ... v?h=master.

I don't have a Ceton so have never tested it myself but others here do and have reported that it works. It should be installed by default. Check with pacman -Ss ceton. I know it gets rebuild everytime we update the kernel http://cgit.linhes.org/linhes_pkgbuild/ ... v?h=master.

Thank you for the reply. i checked pacman and ceton is installed.

On my mythbuntu system, the ceton driver installed a web configuration (accessible at 192.168.200.1) page dedicated for the ceton card, which seems to be inaccessible on this system.

After thinking about it for a while I suspect my problem is due to not setting up the network interface for the ceton card. The card itself runs its own DCHP server and assigns the 192.168.200.x network to the card. In a debian based system, this is done by editing the /etc/network/interfaces file. However, this file is not found in LinHES.

Thank you for this tip. Based on the manpage, it seems like the key is /etc/net/ifaces; however, I suspect subdirectories and files should not be manually created. Because I don't find much on etcnet in google, it will take me while to understand how to use etcnet.

I am new to LinHES and need a pointer on installation of a Ceton InfiniTV 4 card. I have a Ceton InfiniTV 4 card and hopeful that the driver for this device will be installed by default. In the mythbackend, the Ceton card is available to be selected; however, when I scan for channels the message "Failed to open the card" appears in the Scan Type box. It seems like this device is not functioning because I am unable to access the device web configuration page at 192.168.200.1.

Is it correct that the driver for Ceton InfiniTV 4 card is not installed by default and I need to install it manually?

After installing the driver manually (assuming this will be the case), I presume that re-installation of the driver will be necessary when LinHES updates the kernel? If yes, is there a way to avoiding this manual re-installation step (dkms)?

Any input will be greatly appreciated.

With kind regards,

LinHes 8.4.3 will magicaly install your ceton drivers and network if everything is at default settings. Please open terminal (Alt +x) and type: ifconfigI have attached a picture of my ifconfig output. The 2 yellow highlighted "ctn0" and "eth0" are my Ceton 6 and Wired Ethernet. Both match my router 192.168.x.xThe x's can be anything but "router", "ctn0" and "eth0" (or wireless connection) must all start with xxx.xxx._._ If they don't your router and or card must be reset. http://cetoncorp.com/downloads/reset_network.py . If your router doesn't start with 192.168., then either you need to change the router to 192.168 or edit the script to match the router, and then reset the card to match the router. The ip you put in Capture Cards during Mythtv setup has to be default or match the edited script. You also need to setup your channels at http://www.schedulesdirect.org/ What I did was use my cable box to verify what channels I was subscribed to. At schedules direct I selected my provider then enabled channels I got and disabled channels I didn't get. I don’t scan channels in Mythtv "Input Connections", I " retrieve" (button to the right of scan) channels from schedules direct in a few seconds. After clicking "retrieve" I use my keyboard to arrow down. Once the retrieve is complete, channels will be available below the scan button.

linhes will install the ceton driver and setup all the networking for you.Along with the advice in the previous post, have a look at the masterbackend webpage. From the left hand menu, select system->tuners. It will display all the tuners found, and if they are networked it will provide a link. For the ceton tuners Linhes also sets up a proxy so the tuners may be accessed from the lan.

I am new to LinHES and need a pointer on installation of a Ceton InfiniTV 4 card. I have a Ceton InfiniTV 4 card and hopeful that the driver for this device will be installed by default. In the mythbackend, the Ceton card is available to be selected; however, when I scan for channels the message "Failed to open the card" appears in the Scan Type box. It seems like this device is not functioning because I am unable to access the device web configuration page at 192.168.200.1.

Is it correct that the driver for Ceton InfiniTV 4 card is not installed by default and I need to install it manually?

After installing the driver manually (assuming this will be the case), I presume that re-installation of the driver will be necessary when LinHES updates the kernel? If yes, is there a way to avoiding this manual re-installation step (dkms)?

Any input will be greatly appreciated.

With kind regards,

LinHes 8.4.3 will magicaly install your ceton drivers and network if everything is at default settings. Please open terminal (Alt +x) and type: ifconfigI have attached a picture of my ifconfig output. The 2 yellow highlighted "ctn0" and "eth0" are my Ceton 6 and Wired Ethernet. Both match my router 192.168.x.xThe x's can be anything but "router", "ctn0" and "eth0" (or wireless connection) must all start with xxx.xxx._._ If they don't your router and or card must be reset. http://cetoncorp.com/downloads/reset_network.py . If your router doesn't start with 192.168., then either you need to change the router to 192.168 or edit the script to match the router, and then reset the card to match the router. The ip you put in Capture Cards during Mythtv setup has to be default or match the edited script. You also need to setup your channels at http://www.schedulesdirect.org/ What I did was use my cable box to verify what channels I was subscribed to. At schedules direct I selected my provider then enabled channels I got and disabled channels I didn't get. I don’t scan channels in Mythtv "Input Connections", I " retrieve" (button to the right of scan) channels from schedules direct in a few seconds. After clicking "retrieve" I use my keyboard to arrow down. Once the retrieve is complete, channels will be available below the scan button.

Thank you for the reply and suggestions.

The ifconfig command displays only eth0 and not ctn0.

My network is using 192.169.x.xx .

I tried the reset_network.py script but it fails with the message 'Failed to send reset'. I googled this error but did not discover an obvious solution.

My channels are set up as I have channel data, just not a working ceton Infinitv 4 card, yet.

linhes will install the ceton driver and setup all the networking for you.Along with the advice in the previous post, have a look at the masterbackend webpage. From the left hand menu, select system->tuners. It will display all the tuners found, and if they are networked it will provide a link. For the ceton tuners Linhes also sets up a proxy so the tuners may be accessed from the lan.

Thank you for this reply. Oh how I wish the ceton infinitv 4 was working. However, I am hopeful I can get it working in LinHES with help from others like yourself. After all, this tuner card was working in mythbuntu.

When I view the tuner list from the masterbackend webpage (system --> tuners), which is on the same machine as the frontend, the following is displayed.

It seems like LinHES does not see the tuner. I can understand why this makes sense because I cannot access the ceton infinitv4 webpage at 192.168.200.x. This too makes sense because I when I set up this tuner in mythbuntu, I had to manually edit /etc/network/interfaces file, which I think enbles the system to see the device as a network. However, the /etc/network/interfaces file is not in LinHES and instead uses /etc/net/ifaces; however, I am unfamiliar with configuring network using /etc/net/ifaces.

I know this thread is quite a few months old. I hope it is not too old to continue because I am still struggling getting the ceton infinitv 4 recognized in LinHES. I appreciate everyone who has tried to help so far.

I believe the reason that mythtv does not see the Ceton tuner(s) is because the proxy has not been set up. The output of ifconfig lists only eth0 and lo. The network interface ctn0 does not appear in the output of ifconfig.

To create the ctn0 network interface, I have tried using the following command without success.

I suspect that the above script fails because it was not built for LinHES. Nevertheless, it seems that my challenge is to configure LinHES so that ctn0 appears in ifconfig. How do I create the ctn0 network interface?

I am aware of etcnet; however, I don't know how to use it. I man and googled and read about it; however, I am not brave enough to use what I read in google.

I will greatly appreciate if (a) instructions can be provided for how to create the ctn0 network interface or (b) suggest an alternative solution if the lack of ctn0 in ifconfig is not the cause but a side effect of the true inability to use the ctn0 card.

Check if autocard can scan ctn0 (sudo autocard.py print). And check if the cetonproxy is running sudo sv status cetonproxy

Thanks for taking the time to write a reply. The output of sudo ifconfig fails to list the ctn0 network interface. I know the network interface is not created/configured and I didn't know how to create it manually in LinHES. I tried the instructions for assigning a network address found here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ne ... assignment.

I made a step forward! The ctn0 network interface now appears after the ifconfig command. This is the command I used.

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